Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai (SR)

Mumbai, May 10: The Neral police on Monday arrested an aspiring model in connection with the death of a hairdresser based outside Andheri. The deceased, Shobhit Singh based out of Andheri, was found dead at the bottom of a cliff in Matheran three weeks after he was reported missing.

Police booked his former girlfriend and two of her friends for abetting his suicide, suspecting that the man killed himself.

As per The Indian Express report, police said Shobhit was in a relationship with an aspiring model he met in Lucknow and had moved to Mumbai for better career prospects. Shobhit’s roommates last saw him on April 13 and when they could not contact him, they registered a missing person’s complaint at Amboli police station.

Between April 13 and 16, police said they were able to track Shobhit’s mobile phone’s location near a dam in the hill station before his phone was switched off.

“On Monday, after days of searching the area, we found his body in Mangaon Wada in a decomposed state. We also found his mobile phone and other belongings. We suspect that he jumped off a cliff,” said assistant police inspector Somnath Jadhav of Neral police station.

An officer at Amboli police station said in the note, Shobhit has alleged harassment by his former girlfriend and two of her friends, after their relationship ended recently.